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SUBMITTER: Cornejo OE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1855252 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Trends in parasitology 20061010 12
The evolutionary history of Plasmodium vivax has recently been addressed in terms of its origin as a parasite of humans and the age of extant populations. The consensus is that P. vivax originated as a result of a host switch from a non-human primate to hominids and that the extant populations did not originate as recently as previously proposed. Here, we show that, in a comparison of parasite isolates from across the world, Asian populations of P. vivax are the oldest. We discuss how this resul ...[more]